spicergear
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Got her home today with no mechanical conundrums! Whew! I did curse Mapquest however as it sent us off route badly until I eyeballed where we needed to go and just headed that way until roads looked familiar. 62 miles took 3hrs...ugh. Anyway gave a nice opportunity over all the paved hillclimbs and downslopes to shake the truck out real well. Big Cummins worked well, Allison (once warmed up) shifted really nicely. Full air brakes give you a good feeling that you could stop the truck NOW...if you wanted. Air system burped and farted and tweeked for about 15 minutes then settled in a seemed like decent solid system with only seemingly scheduled noises from then out.
First pic is beside a stock deuce and the second pic I tried to get at 55mph but got it on the 3rd take and dropped off a little. Truck was running very well on non-interstate improved secondary roads 1,800rpm @ 55mph and not in anyway feeling like anything was in an overspeed condition. A nice stretch and I bumped up to 60mph with no sweat. It drove well and didn't feel like it was really that big...just made the lane seem narrower. Happy it's home, happy it was an uneventful trip.
First pic is beside a stock deuce and the second pic I tried to get at 55mph but got it on the 3rd take and dropped off a little. Truck was running very well on non-interstate improved secondary roads 1,800rpm @ 55mph and not in anyway feeling like anything was in an overspeed condition. A nice stretch and I bumped up to 60mph with no sweat. It drove well and didn't feel like it was really that big...just made the lane seem narrower. Happy it's home, happy it was an uneventful trip.
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